R. C. Hutchinson

Johanna at Daybreak (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A note prefacing this complex novel intimates that R.C. Hutchinson's interest was aroused originally by an article in a Dutch journal. The story of Johanna von Leezen was truly puzzling: was she a criminal hiding a corrupt past under the pretence of amnesia, or were her anxieties and hallucinations caused by the shock of her experiences of war? Hutchinson was constrained to begin a search for 'Johanna'; and by degrees he learnt her strange and moving story.

Johanna at Daybreak is a fictional exploration of the events which lead to the discovery of a middle aged woman in a Dutch refugee home, who could not recollect any account of her past, yet trembled at the thought of going to Germany. Her stupefying fear of arrest and trial for a capital offence inspired the authorities and doctors to get down to the root of her mystery. Little by little the truth comes out, half grey reality, half nightmare.

Johanna at Daybreak, first published in 1969, is an at times dark, at times touching exploration of self-identity in the traumatic post-war reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448214150
• Artikelnr.: 40447792

Autorenporträt

Ray Coryton Hutchinson (1907-1975) was a British novelist and short story writer. He was born in Middlesex and educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath. He later went to study at Oriel College in Oxford; after graduating, in 1927, he joined the advertising department at Colman's in Norwich.

His early novels - Though Hast a Devil, The Answering Glory, and The Unforgotten Prisoner, written and published between 1930 and 1935 - were successful and their high sales allowed Hutchinson to leave advertising and become a full-time writer.

In 1940 he joined the army and travelled extensively around Europe while serving during the war. He was demobilized in October 1945 with the rank of Major. Hutchinson continued to write throughout his life and in 1962 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His last novel, Rising, was published in September 1975 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in November of the same year.